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Example sentences for "being nearly"

  • Well-established specimens have a shrub-like effect, being nearly 2ft.

  • An animal seen so closely as to be struck at with a whip could hardly have been mistaken for a dog--the only other animal that it could possibly be supposed to have been, and a dog would certainly not have "disappeared in the water.

  • The quantity of air blown into the fineries is considerable; being nearly 400 cubic feet per minute for each finery; or about the eighth part of the consumption of a blast furnace.

  • Bismuth may be used as a substitute for lead in cupellation; two parts of it being nearly equivalent to three of lead.

  • The SKULL differs greatly in size in different breeds, being nearly twice as long in the largest Cochins, but not nearly twice as broad, as in Bantams.

  • The outline of the ischiadic foramen differs considerably, being nearly circular in Bantams, instead of egg-shaped as in the Bankiva, and more regularly oval in some skeletons, as in the Spanish.

  • The silk varies in fineness and quality, and in being nearly white, but of two tints, or yellow.

  • The par of exchange between New York and London being nearly $4.

  • It was urged that Jeinal, as being nearly allied to the king of Bintang, was an avowed enemy to that nation, which he had manifested in some recent outrages committed against the merchants from Malacca who traded at Pase.

  • The Skull differs greatly in size in different breeds, being nearly twice as long in the largest Cochins, but not nearly twice as broad, as in Bantams.

  • The silk varies in fineness and quality, and in being nearly white, of two tints, or yellow.

  • Amiable persons exhibit their natural traits of disposition at sea in strong contrast to those who are actuated by opposite qualities,--the latter, we are sorry to say, being nearly always in the majority.

  • Another somewhat famous mine of this neighborhood is known as the "Bobby Whitlow;" and still a third which deserves mention as being nearly as prolific is called "The Boro.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being nearly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being acted; being affected; being anxious; being built; being captured; being convinced; being desirous; being either; being equivalent; being formed; being left; being loved; being mixed; being much; being now; being possessed; being presented; being ready; being related; being treated; being united; being well; had two; handsome young; more clearly; stone bridge